What Sounds Do Crickets Make?

Seeing that everybody has deserted this place… I deem it necessary to finally update again. If you’re asking me what have I been busy with, absolutely nothing. Unless I include last Saturday’s birthday party at Jolyn’s place. Which has no pictures at all save one group picture, of which I look positively horrendous.

Anyway. Moving on to more random stuff. To be honest, I never knew we had a national dragon boat team. By now majority of you(or the people around you) should have more or less heard of the 5 dragon boaters who tragically lost their lives in Cambodia. If you are one of those, who are affected directly or indirectly… my condolences to you. Mourn the dead, and remember to cherish those still living.

One of my friend seems so affected by it… mainly because one of the deceased is his idol. Now he works to achieve the same excellence he did. I understand his sorrow, even if I don’t feel it. I’m not cold hearted. It’s just life and death is part and parcel of life… they’re not directly connected to me. I imagine that if they were… I’d be just as distraught.

I pray that life does not have to be so morbid all the time… and for us to get a break, for something good to cheer about. Chin up people, whatever obstacle you’re facing won’t last for long.

System Error

I remember when my first desktop was $3000. Played really old and cheesy games; an Atari game(i think) called Raptor, which is basically the sort of plane shooters like those you find in arcades. But it was different and more fascinating because you could buy upgrades and… stuff like that. I can’t remember.

Then there was Sonic the Hedgehog. Running around collecting rings like a fly on drugs. It was that addictive. Couldn’t stop playing man. The rings… gold shiny pretty things… Anyway! As technology advances… so do games. Now we play MMORPGS, MMOFPS, shit like that. Superior graphics, and interaction with people around the globe are just tips of the iceberg.

And nowadays… even as computers become more powerful… the prices go up as well. Not only because of the specifications, but style, appearances are taken into consideration to attract people.

Which brings me to my main point. My desktop has fried. Cannot on at all. It shows a black screen and it chants “System error, blah blah(something i can’t make out). Sigh. Any IT whizzes out there?

Slip and Slide

With my very extensive networking skills… many would already have known about my exciting 4 second adventure for today. For the benefit of those who are still interested though, let me tell you… it’s going to be a show stopper!

This morning, it was stormy… raining so hard, I could barely see across the street. Not wanting to wet my shoes and feel all squirmy, I went back and changed into berms and flip flops. So I brought my trusty jacket, and walked into the storm, to school.

So as I finally reached the covered walkway… and proceeded with my very cool strut to school. Unknown to me, my flip flops were already flat. No friction. No treads.

What happens next can be mortifying for some and hilarious for others. Depends on how sympathetic you are for me.

The guy in front is walking far too slow. I’m late. Gotta rush man. Get outta the way.

I move into the next gear. I storm forward to cut past him.

Too close to the metal poles holding up the walkway. It’s alright, no harm.

Water bottle knocks into the poles. Clanging sound ensues. I ignore it. Rushing on!

I slip. I slide. I do a split.

All in one motion so smooth a ballerina would give me a fucking pat on the back.

Feels like the clang was announcing to everybody that I’m about to do a split in public.

I dust myself, and continue in my strut. My day just got fucked up.

Holi-Holi-Dayyyy

It’s 5 days into my term break! And it was kicked off with a class chalet. Above is probably the closest thing we took to a class photo that is available to me.

I don’t know about you guys, but I have thoughts of my legion of readers questioning whether was the previous chalet better, or this. It’s at different stages of friendship however… and I have to say that both were equally excellent. Though sem1 had a better place (aloha changi).

One difference though… this one had far more scandals compared to the other one. Ahhh.. the unmentionables. Not that I know of any details. Lack of pictures in this chalet’s post also… mainly because I didn’t take any and I don’t wanna see any nice/cutesy/incriminating pictures.

Holidays! W14G… any news at all?

Lying From You

When I pretend,
Everything is what I want it to be,
I looked exactly like what you had always wanted to see,
When I pretend,
I can’t forget about the criminal I am,
Stealing second after second just cause I know I can,

I wanna be pushed aside, so let me go!